2 suburban Indianapolis school districts cancel classes after online threats

When it comes to assessing threats, schools in New York City and Los Angeles likely have more experience than most other districts in the country.

Police said the latter threats made to the two neighboring school districts early Thursday morning were related; the suspect reportedly threatened DCSC after his or her threat to PCSC resulted in its closure. Officials from Broward County Public Schools said they also received a threat.

Cortines said the threat was rare, considering the many threats the districts receives daily.

Miami school officials said district police immediately contacted federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and promised to deploy extra security to schools Thursday.

In Houston, officials said law enforcement officers were making sweeps of school district buildings to ensure student safety. Raleigh Police Department police responded to 14 bomb threats at Wake County schools between March 29 and December 14, 2015, WRAL reported.

As demonstrated by Tuesday’s shutdown of Los Angeles schools, threats can cause large, costly disruptions and traumatize students even in cases that might involve hoaxes. Officials in NY determined the threat was a hoax and kept schools open that day.

He knows the district is doing everything to protect students and staff, but said he wouldn’t mind seeing metal detectors at front doors come January. There are no national guidelines for administrators on determining threat levels, and most decisions to close are made by superintendents and school boards, often in conjunction with police departments or emergency services.

The San Francisco school district is the seventh largest in California, according to its website, and enrolls roughly 57,000 students.

Wright said officials are investigating and taking the threats seriously.

Danville Police Chief William Wright said those students, a freshman and a senior are facing preliminary charges of intimidation.

Shafer agreed, “We believe that it’s a possibility the person who is making the threats at Plainfield may also be the same person making the threats related to Danville”.

In Danville, about 20 miles west of Indianapolis, the Danville Community High School already was on alert due to separate incidents of threats by students, both of whom were arrested early Thursday.

Police said it appears that the poster of the threat did not make any threats himself.

Authorities say they inspected all schools and found nothing suspicious.

On Thursday, the school was placed on lockdown and after-school activities were canceled.

The third individual apparently made the Facebook postings that spurred both the Danville district and Plainfield district to cancel classes.